Wednesday, February 1, 2012

1201.6423 (X. P. Qin et al.)

Dynamic relaxation of topological defect at Kosterlitz-Thouless phase
transition
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X. P. Qin, B. Zheng, N. J. Zhou
With Monte Carlo methods we study the dynamic relaxation of a vortex state at
the Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition of the two-dimensional XY model. A
local pseudo-magnetization is introduced to characterize the symmetric
structure of the dynamic systems. The dynamic scaling behavior of the
pseudo-magnetization and Binder cumulant is carefully analyzed, and the
critical exponents are determined. To illustrate the dynamic effect of the
topological defect, similar analysis for the the dynamic relaxation with a
spin-wave initial state is also performed for comparison. We demonstrate that a
limited amount of quenched disorder in the core of the vortex state may alter
the dynamic universality class. Further, theoretical calculations based on the
long-wave approximation are presented.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.6423

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